jones now has to pay the parents of a sandy hook school shooting victim more than $4 million for the cruel and widespread and relentless lies that added to their heartache over a ten-year period. now, of course, this does fall way short of $150 million they did ask for in compensatory damages sought by little jessie lewis parents, a number their attorney said came from the number of people who believed the false claims of the hoax spewed by jones and the baseless arguments that the newtown s grieving parents were actors. the number also factored in the emotional and mental anguish those parents suffered and continue to suffer today for years of harassment by jones and his followers. he finally acknowledged what everyone else hopefully knew to be true, that the massacre was, quote, using his words after what ten years, 100% real. but the $4 million is actually not the end of the story, not in this courtroom, not in texas, because jones legal battles are actually far from
apart if the clock runs out, the inpatience of the american people kick in and the united states withdraws its hand from the security of ukraine and from the leadership role we played to the european continent. europe is not a monolith as we talked about before. germany does not have the spine necessary to hold a coalition together. and good and determined allies that have contributed a lot. po poland, the british have been very good on supporting ukraine. all of those countries, none of them are able to hold the coalition together. it s only the united states. if we withdraw our hands, it all falls apart. zelensky understand that. neil: you know, we re in it as long as it takes the president says. but its been taking upwards of a year now. we re patient about it. obviously zelensky himself is very grateful for the fact that we are and keep forwarding the money and the weapon systems.
0 wednesday december 21. the story goes on. look forward to seeing you back here tomorrow. thanks for spending your time with us. we look forward to the news conference at the white house in short order. you ll see that as your world continues moments away. see you tomorrow. have a great evening. thanks from our people to your ordinary people, americans. i really appreciate. i think it s very difficult to understand what it means when we say appreciate. but you really have to feel it. thank you so much. look who dropped in the neighborhood. you re looking live at the white house where in about a half an hour or so, president biden and president zelensky will be holding a joint news conference, this is as he prepares to address members of congress with lawmakers poised now to approve another $45 billion in aid to ukraine. a lot of that tucked in to that $1.7 trillion dollar under the spending initiative. we have you covered in every way with everyone with jacqui heinrich at the wh
you bring out the literary genius in me, scott. i m wondering what you make of the idea of, look, we hear we heard a lot through the mueller years. i go back to the mueller years because people had a patience issue, shall we say? and i feel that often as we re conflating what s happening then with what s happening now and you see the patience or inpatience carrying over. and sometimes democrats are saying, this is it, this is it, this is it. and republicans are saying, it still ain t it, it still ain t it, it still ain t it. i think you re onto something there because during the trump years there was a whole bunch of people who had it in their mind that mueller was going to kick open the door wearing a trench coat and fedora and slap the handcuffs on donald trump. it was never going to happen. those people still exist and want that outcome. i think elliott said it best. if the facts and the law warrant this, then the process has to be
saying i want every teacher in this country to get back to work. if he did, they would do it. martha: one of the things that i think president trump definitely got right during the early stages of covid is his inpatience. right? he said no, no, we can t wait for this vaccine. we re going to do operation warp speed. we need it now. i m thinking back to that and the possibilities that you could have for this president to be, you know, at a testing center while they re churning out tests saying here s what we re doing and going to get them to the older generation and to the vulnerable first and be pro active about making sure that that happens and showing inpatience for what s going on. well, martha, you re right. that s what leadership looks like. instead, what we see is somebody that looks lost. joe biden, every day, looks like he s looking around saying how did i get here? what do i do now?